Improvement in cigar-point splitters



A. SIGKE'NBERGER. Cigar-Point Splitters.

Patented Nov. 11,1873.

Inventor -Attest--- ww a.

AMPHDTH 1/71/0904 PHIL Ca M X! WHOM/E19 moms) UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

ADAM SICKENBERGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CI GAR'POINT SPLITTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,570, dated November 11, 1873; application filed J one 2, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

provement in a Cigar-Point Splitter; and I do declare that the following is a true and accurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon and being a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my splitter with a cigar inserted in the guide-socket, preparatory to splitting its point. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Like letters refer to like parts in both figures.

This invention has for its object to provide a device in which the point of a cigar may be inserted and pressed downward upon a stationary knife, whereby the cigar-point will be split instead of cutting it OK, as heretofore, leaving the point unimpaired in strength and symmetry, and from which the tuck of the wrapper will not unfold. The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the several parts, as more fully here inafter set forth.

In the drawing, A represents a base, in which is inserted a vertical blade, B, sharpened on its upper horizontal edge, at either side of which are standards 0 0, preferably long machine-screws, with all the threads except those near the points out or turned off, the points being tapped into the base. D is a ring or yoke, with two eyes, a, projecting at opposite sides, and which slide on the guidestandards 0, being supported or held up to the heads thereof by a light spiral spring, E, coiled around each standard. F is a bowl or socket, resting in the yoke D, and is slotted, as at b, to slide down upon the blade.

If the point of a cigar be inserted in socket F, as shown in Fig. 1, and then pushed down, the blade will split the cigar end, and give it the necessary draft to cause it to smoke freely when lit. WVhen the cigar is withdrawn from the socket the springs throw thelatter up to place again.

Needles may be used in place of knife B.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and arrangement of the blade B, guide-standards O 0,.ring or yoke D, springs E E, and socket F, with relation to the base A, as and for the purpose set forth.

ADAM SIOKENBERGER.

Witnesses WM. H. LoTz, GEO. FERRIS. 

